Bajazet, considerando o Teatro e a Peste

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With his cross reading of Racine and Artaud, Frank Castorf, long-time director of Volksbühne in Berlin, offers a theatre of the word, between the Baroque poet who uses language to create the mechanism that will set free the desire and the demon who shatters and reinvents language to rebuild himself. Bajazet, considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019) is also a celebration of Castorf’s theatre, a state of urgency made of immoderation and vitalism, a territory of contradictions and revelations, in a game where the mixing of languages serves a ferociously subtle direction of actors. The cast, entirely French, matured in Racine’s tragic words and Artaud’s theatrical essentialism, is completed with the presence of Jeanne Balibar, a French theatre and film star, who starred in Ne change rien, film by Pedro Costa.